In the late 1970s, he created "Daler Nazarov's Band" which primarily focused on the rock genre and gained popularity.
His songs "Agar on turki sherozi", "Zebo ba Zebo", "Chashmi kabudi dudi", "Chak-chaki boron", Dunyoi savdo bigzarad", "Hargiz az yod", "Nigori nozanin", "Bo perahani yosuman", "Telefoni sulh" were instant hits in the 1980s in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
In 2008, the Tajik newspaper Avesta included Nazarov in the list of the hundred richest and most influential people in the country.
[1] In 1988, Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev joined his group and the duo collaborated for several years under "Daler Nazarov"s band.
He has lived in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan for most of his life, but had to leave the country in the early 1990s due to a civil war that ended around 1997.